DSR 11 (Revised)
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Sir J Freeland
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HONG KONG: LEGISLATION
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As you will know, on 1 July 1997 the United Kingdom
will restore Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
under the terms of the Joint Declaration of the two
governments, ratified on 27 May 1985.
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Under the terms of the Joint Declaration and its
Annexes the laws previously in force in Hong Kong will be
continued after 1997. In order to secure the maximum
advantage from this provision the Hong Kong Government is
embarking on a programme of localisation of United
Kingdom law which currently applies to the territory, the
object of which is to establish, under local ordinance, a
set of self-contained Hong Kong laws by 1997. For this
reason the Hong Kong Act 1985 provides for Orders in
Council to enable the Hong Kong legislature to repeal or
amend any enactment so far as it is part of the law of
Hong Kong and to make laws having extra-territorial
operation.
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